Douglas A. Lee

Mike Tanier proposes a 14-team all-hoops conference with MU playing in its western half

Great column from MU alum Patrick Sauer

Some more Majerus love, if not Marquette-centric.

Steve Novak is not like any other NBA player, which makes him confoundingly and a little bit inspiringly like us.

Strotty writes at Paint Touches: "According to CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein, Marquette has emerged as the front runner for Arizona State transfer Trent Lockett. "Lockett, a 6-foot-4 shooting guard, was granted his release from Arizona State last week. The junior is looking to transfer closer to his home in Golden Valley, Minn. to be closer to his sick mother, who was recently diagnosed with cancer." Click the headline for the whole post.

Johnson-Odom looks like Kanye West had a baby with a Costco tub of whey protein. Crowder looks like Predator had a baby with another Predator. Whatever the formula was, the outcome was fast-twitch muscle fiber. These guys are the reason that other guys want to take steroids. Toward the end of my research, I stumbled upon a YouTube video of Jae Crowder talking about his biggest fear. While he goes on to mention failure as being the one, he first takes the time to talk about how everyone is afraid of him. Yes, that’s right. He already knows. Something tells me that D.J.O. knows as well.

Adam Zagoria, a reporter for SNY.tv, Tweeted that league sources have told him that Jae Crowder will be named Big East player of the year. The official announcement is to be made Tuesday.

Why should Williams have to apologize for three seconds of a dance that may have taunted the same rabid fans who had to be told to stop throwing things on the court during the game? If anything, he should've apologized for not taunting them more. If I were him, I would've grabbed my crotch and made a duck face at the crowd while I danced all over the midcourt logo. I would've walked to the announcers' table for a postgame interview and told Bill Raftery that "If the fans have a problem with what I just did, I've got two words for them." Then I would've dropped the mic, turned to the student section, and unleashed a ferocious "suck it" crotch chop. Sure, if Williams did this it probably would've gotten him killed, but at least it would've actually been worth the uproar that his three-second dance caused.

The Elias Sports Bureau says that since Novak has entered the N.B.A., a little more than 72 percent of his shots have been from 3-point range, the highest percentage of any player in the league over that period, based on a minimum of 500 total field-goal attempts.

Wisconsin is the only program from the six major conferences that uses a Sterling basketball. When Bo Ryan was the coach at Division III Wisconsin-Platteville, Sterling provided him with camp basketballs. Since he took over as the Badgers’ coach in 2001, Ryan has stayed loyal to the company, based in Puyallup, Wash. Players and coaches from the Big Ten gripe about the Sterling basketballs, citing them as one of the challenges of playing at Kohl Center in Madison. It is perhaps no coincidence, then, that the Badgers have a 91.7 winning percentage at Kohl Center under Ryan. For his part, Ryan dismissed the idea that the basketballs played a role in helping to build the impressive home record. "I’m a Nike guy, so if there was a uniform ball, I’d want it to be Nike," Marquette Coach Buzz Williams said. "That’s how my kids get Christmas presents, so, yeah, I want to use Nike."

Hey MHR Friends! Doc has put together an exceptional series on the history of the spread offense and where the Elways fit into it. Part 2 just hit today, and the series concludes tomorrow. We hope you'll enjoy it!

I love the sudden movement to bring orange back to Mile High full time. But there's something suspicious about the whole thing...

According to Jeff Legwold of the Denver Post, Broncos LB coach Don Martindale is receiving consideration for the defensive coordinator position left vacant by the sudden departure of Mike Nolan. Legwold says former Patriots DC Dean Pees is still the frontrunner for the position in Denver, but multiple Broncos suggested Martindale would be a worthy candidate to replace Nolan when asked yesterday.